Not exact matches
Elon Musk, founder and CEO, SpaceX and Tesla — Referencing Musk's mission to build conditions for a viable colony on Mars, Yuri Milner, founder of DST
Global, says Musk «is one of the few people not only
thinking about the survival of our
civilization but also doing something about it.»
The thing that is so scary today is that we have for the first time a
global civilization that is doing what many of those did: Building a huge population and abusing its environment without any
thought to the consequences.
Additionally, Andrea is a dedicated health leader on the Board of Directors for the acclaimed Center for Integral Wisdom, an activist
think - tank dedicated to partnering with leading thinkers and change agents to formulate and articulate a
global ethics for a
global civilization.
I've said countless times that peak oil and
global warming are imminent and extremely serious problems, and yet people keep assuming that because I'm not predicting the fall of modern
civilization in 10 years that I
think it's all not that big a deal.
Anyone who
thinks that there is any genuine «debate» about either the reality of anthropogenic
global warming and consequent climate change, or the grave threat not only to human
civilization but to all life on earth if unmitigated, «business as usual» anthropogenic
global warming and consequent climate change are permitted to continue, is profoundly misinformed.
I
think maybe you could connect up this growing awareness of long time or deep time, in human
civilization, with the previously noted increase in our sense of spatial reach, that sense that we are now all part of a single
global civilization, the «
global village» notion.
There's always a number of marginalized groups of lunatics who
thinks some
global catastrophe is going to wipe out
civilization.
The thing that is so scary today is that we have for the first time a
global civilization that is doing what many of those did: Building a huge population and abusing its environment without any
thought to the consequences.